Conservatives demonize themselves by doing and saying and believing the stuff they do. Conservatives demonize themselves when they elect a guy like Michael Steele, choose a vp candidate like Sarah Palin, and stubbornly support torture, illegal wars of choice, and anti-scientific theories.

You suffer from the delusion that it is only conservatives who demonize people. I have no idea how you can keep up such an absurd facade (especially when you mention Palin in the same post, who was demonized by liberals more than any politician in memory). Your entire blog is dedicated to demonizing conservatives, so please give me a break. Your hypocrisy is boundless.

Conservatives are allowed to promote their views and concerns, just as liberals are. Deal with it, and try to address the issues instead of just calling people racists.

And if you aren't troubled by $12 trillion in debt, the largest deficit projections in history, massive increases in government spending, bailouts for the rich, special interests running D.C., a looming government health care takeover, massive tax hikes on the horizon, the tsunami of unfunded entitlement liabilities, the attempts at censorship, etc, etc……I don't know what to tell you. You just aren't paying attention. You're fiddling while Rome burns. You can peddle your message of conservative hate instead, if you wish, it's a free country, but don't expect me to take you the least bit seriously.

You can think and say what you will…..however, it's clear from the Palin campaign, the Limbaugh "hope he fails" bloviations, the Tea Party sore losers, and now the townhall deviants…….that what we're witnessing is much more than fiscal scolds holding a handwringing party over deficits.

What we're seeing is what we saw the last time a Democrat was elected president. If demonizing conservatives can raise enough hell, as they learned during Clinton, a Democratic president can be successfully marginalized, made ineffectual….defeated.

That's what is at work in the health care "debate". To name call those who point out the obvious lends even more support to my premise.

"The "rage" is not over government spending….or tax rates…..or deficits….or any of the flimsy excuses laid down by oh-so-serious conservatives and libertarians.
The rage, the passion has been caused by the man, now the president, Barack Obama. He is a black man. He is a Democrat. And that's what the bust-ups of health reform town halls are all about."

You're a racist prick. This is NOT about skin color. It's ALL about what you refer to as "flimsy excuses." (like the flimsy fact that America is going bankrupt).

But maybe I shouldn't have used the words I used. Allow me to amend them.

You're a racist prick, a dismissive jackass, and an effing idiot.

"During Democratic presidents, conservative ragers, the same ragers who slumber during Republican presidents, you know, are angrily awakened. That's the story. Not that Americans are, you know, randomly enraged at government in undetectable cycles."

Here is my only reference to color….

" A Democrat has been elected president, a black man with progressive solutions for America's future. A future that conservatives have never wanted any part of…..ever."

If that's being a "racist prick"…..then conservative readers have a bigger problem with comprehension than I had imagined. Something I've always suspected.

frank adds some needed perspective to the plight of FOX viewers and those easily swayed by the GOP's "southern strategy." These folks vote against their own interests because someone else having an abortion is more important to them than equitable wages and health care for their own families. These folks vote for candidates who will make decisions that hollow-out the quality of their own lives, because those candidates say they want god brought back into public schools.

While what frank says here is, at least, partially true….

"They have neither the time or inclination to find out what has gone wrong, and therefore they are ripe for exploitation from the very forces that are screwing them. They know that the American Dream has been stolen from them and their children and they don't know how or why."

It is also true that these folks who never have the time to find out what the facts are…..sure have enough time to attend screecher sessions. Now that these ill-informed voters have a Tea Party Town Hall stage, they are no longer innocent victims of political deception, they are part of the deception.

Yes, powerful, monied interests pull the chain of these voters and often trick them into voting against their own interests.

But what we're witnessing is more than just that. After 8 years of lawlessness and bullying of progressives, the Republicans got their asses handed to them last November. Democrats are now in charge. The protests are about that. It's sore loserdom, ignorance, a militia-mentality, blended with a potent splash of xenophobia.

It's the "No We Can't" to Obama's "Yes, We Can."

Sad.

Nothing but a bunch of stagecrafted wah-wah sessions because America voted in a black Democrat.

Anyway…..
Simply answer this question: Is there any doubt that those who ARE racist and view Obama negatively because of his race, are conservative voters?

The Devout is…well….devout. It goes without saying that The Devout's admonitions are faith-based, so, you know, travel at your own risk…..but having said that…. I did so appreciate the S.968 guns-to-abortion-surgical-tools scam that Obama is trying to slip in to his dreaded Death Panel and Death Book evils.

And we used to think The Dick was evil.